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Title: Vladimir Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany
Category: World
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2014-11-06 06:27:39

[uwish]

well antisemitism was officially preached from the catholic church up until 1964. The first treaties that the Nazi signed was with the vatican so, if it's good enough for Christians then......

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Just like there was nothing wrong with Hitler double crossing Russia and invading it.
The only bad thing was, they killed too many average Russian people and not enough commies.

[ShepherdsDog]

There were plenty of people in the West, especially the industrialists(Ford being a prime example), who saw National Socialism as the sword to wield against the Red threat. There were also plenty of Soviet 'citizens', especially the Ukrainians(who formed the third largest block of foreign nolunteers in the Waffen SS, after the French) who saw the Germans as liberators

[PublicAnimalNo9]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

There were plenty of people in the West, especially the industrialists(Ford being a prime example), who saw National Socialism as the sword to wield against the Red threat.

Hitler's biggest flaw in his Russian plan wasn't miscalculating the winter, it was turning it into a race war of extermination instead of a war of ideologies.
During the initial weeks of the invasion, Russian soldiers surrendered in droves when the opportunity arose. Most had absolutely zero desire to fight for Stalin or communism. They regarded the nazis as liberators, at first.

[martin14]

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Vladimir Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany

Well, there wasn't.

The Soviets were in no position to fight, Stalin's purges, famine in the Ukraine,
all the Soviet coal and industry were in the West.

Declaring war on the Germans would have been really dumb.


Holland and Belgium decided to try and stay neutral, no one says anything about it.
The Swiss spent the war laundering stolen Nazi gold, no one invaded them for doing it.

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Mr Putin said that Western historians today try to "hush up" the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which France and Britain – led by Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister – appeased Adolf Hitler by acquiescing to his occupation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.

"Chamberlain came, waved a piece of paper and said, 'I've brought you peace' when he returned to London after the talks," Mr Putin, who is a keen amateur historian, said on Wednesday, according to a Kremlin transcript.

"To which Churchill, I think, said somewhere to a small group of people, 'That's it, now war is inevitable'. Because compromise with an aggressor in the form of Hitlerite Germany was clearly leading to a large-scale future military conflict, and some people understood that."

Well, they do. Our conduct before the war was pretty shameful, and Churchill
was proven right all along.

We can be happy Edward actually abdicated, or things could be a lot different today.

Don't know what message the author is trying to send.